Formation of secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic precursors in laboratory studies

D Srivastava, TV Vu, S Tong, Z Shi… - npj Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
Aerosols produced from the oxidation of volatile/semi-volatile organic compounds
(VOCs/SVOCs), known as secondary organic aerosol (SOA), account for a significant …

Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing

M Shrivastava, CD Cappa, J Fan… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic emissions and land use changes have modified atmospheric aerosol
concentrations and size distributions over time. Understanding preindustrial conditions and …

Oxidation of sulfur dioxide by nitrogen dioxide accelerated at the interface of deliquesced aerosol particles

T Liu, JPD Abbatt - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Although the multiphase chemistry of SO2 in aerosol particles is of great importance to air
quality under polluted haze conditions, a fundamental understanding of the pertinent …

A large source of low-volatility secondary organic aerosol

M Ehn, JA Thornton, E Kleist, M Sipilä, H Junninen… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Forests emit large quantities of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to the atmosphere. Their
condensable oxidation products can form secondary organic aerosol, a significant and …

One-year simulation of ozone and particulate matter in China using WRF/CMAQ modeling system

J Hu, J Chen, Q Ying, H Zhang - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
China has been experiencing severe air pollution in recent decades. Although an ambient
air quality monitoring network for criteria pollutants has been constructed in over 100 cities …

Influence of vapor wall loss in laboratory chambers on yields of secondary organic aerosol

X Zhang, CD Cappa, SH Jathar… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) constitutes a major fraction of submicrometer atmospheric
particulate matter. Quantitative simulation of SOA within air-quality and climate models—and …

Organic aerosol components observed in Northern Hemispheric datasets from Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

NL Ng, MR Canagaratna, Q Zhang… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
In this study we compile and present results from the factor analysis of 43 Aerosol Mass
Spectrometer (AMS) datasets (27 of the datasets are reanalyzed in this work). The …

A two-dimensional volatility basis set–Part 2: Diagnostics of organic-aerosol evolution

NM Donahue, JH Kroll, SN Pandis… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
We discuss the use of a two-dimensional volatility-oxidation space (2-D-VBS) to describe
organic-aerosol chemical evolution. The space is built around two coordinates, volatility and …

Characterization of biomass burning emissions from cooking fires, peat, crop residue, and other fuels with high-resolution proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass …

CE Stockwell, PR Veres, J Williams… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
We deployed a high-resolution proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer
(PTR-TOF-MS) to measure biomass-burning emissions from peat, crop residue, cooking …

Absorptivity of brown carbon in fresh and photo-chemically aged biomass-burning emissions

R Saleh, CJ Hennigan, GR McMeeking… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
Experiments were conducted to investigate light absorption of organic aerosol (OA) in fresh
and photo-chemically aged biomass-burning emissions. The experiments considered …